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Trail: 61@28/215

5/25/1940 · MORTGAGE · book 28 page 215 doc 61@28/215

From GARDNER JULIA FRANCES life, GARDNER PAUL life
To WHITE EMILY A
Premises tract on Westerly side of Providence highway (Charlestown, Providence highway, Ross Hill)
Index description SEE DOC
Also on this page: MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT CHRISTIE MILDRED R

Back — where this land came from

This instrument states no source of title that we have read yet.

The grantor's earlier acquisitions, by name — the man, not necessarily this land

◀ 1940 · DEED · WHITE EMILY A → GARDNER JULIA FRANCES; GARDNER PAUL · book 28 p 214

Forward — where this land went

The grantee's later conveyances, by name — the man, not necessarily this land; the one that cites this deed as its source is the land

▶ 1940 · DEED · WHITE EMILY A → GARDNER JULIA FRANCES; GARDNER PAUL · book 28 p 214
▶ 1943 · MORTGAGE ASSIGNMENT · GARDNER JULIA FRANCES; GARDNER PAUL; WHITE EMILY A → CHRISTIE MILDRED R · book 28 p 215
▶ 1943 · MORTGAGE DISCHARGE · CHRISTIE MILDRED R; WHITE EMILY A → GARDNER JULIA FRANCES; GARDNER PAUL · book 28 p 700

The instrument's own words

page 1 · read by Gemma vision
329 We, Robert E. Thornton and Mary E. Thornton, husband and wife, both of the City of Warwick, County of Kent and State of Rhode Island, as joint tenants for consideration paid, grant to Wilson T. Kenyon and Nancy R. Kenyon, husband and wife, both of the town of Westerly, County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, as joint tenants, meaning to the survivor, with WARRANTY COVENANTS That certain real estate situated in Town of Charlestown, County of Washington in the State of Rhode Island, and described as follows: A certain tract or parcel of land located in the said Town of Charlestown on the Westerly side of the Providence highway, from the Post Road to the Post Road via Ross Hill and bounded and described as follows to wit:— Beginning at the Northeasterly corner of the premises hereby conveyed at the intersection of two stone walls, land of Charles Larkins, thence running in a south easterly direction along said stone wall, along the boundary of the premises hereby conveyed division line of the land hereby conveyed to the corner of an intersecting wall with other land of Charles Larkins, thence running South along the West line of the premises hereby along said stone wall, 200 feet to the Southwestern corner of the premises here by conveyed; thence Easterly to the highway in a line parallel with and 200 feet distant from the stone wall forming the West line of the premises hereby conveyed; thence Northerly side; thence Northerly 200 feet to the point and place of beginning, bounded Easterly by the highway, Northerly by land of George Larkins, South Westerly by land of Karl P. Bouder and Southerly by other land of the Grantors. WITNESS our hands this 10th day of September 1940. (INTERNAL REVENUE STAMPS, 55¢) ROBERT E. THORNTON (SEAL) MARY E. THORNTON (SEAL) STATE OF RHODE ISLAND) County of Washington } In Westerly on the 10th day of September, 1940 before me personally appeared Robert E. Thornton and Mary E. Thornton to me known and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they acknowledged said instrument, by them executed, to be their free act and deed. NELSON E. THORP (Notarial Seal) Notary Public Received for record September 12th, A. D. 1940 at 9:00 o'clock, a. m., and recorded by [?] Town Clerk

The page as recorded

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deed_walker_v1.9_2026-10-10 · the index is the town's own (i2l.uslandrecords.com); transcripts, chains and the assessor's cards are the Perry Machine's reading of it. Where the record we hold runs out, the page says so.